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Knowing Science (Hardcover)
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Knowing Science (Hardcover)
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In Knowing Science, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of
science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the
concept of knowledge. Science aims at knowledge and progresses when
it adds to the stock of knowledge. That knowledge is social
knowing-it is known by the scientific community as a whole.
Evidence is that from which knowledge can be obtained by inference.
From this, it follows that evidence is knowledge, and is not
limited to perception, nor to observation. Observation supplies
evidence that is basic relative to a field of enquiry and can be
highly non-perceptual. Theoretical knowledge is typically gained by
inference to the only explanation, in which competing plausible
hypotheses are falsified by the evidence. In cases where not all
competing hypotheses are refuted, scientific hypotheses are not
known but instead possess varying degrees of plausibility.
Plausibilities in the light of the evidence are probabilities and
link eliminative explanationism to Bayesian conditionalization.
Bird argues that scientific realism and anti-realism as global
metascientific claims should be rejected-the track record gives us
only local metascientific claims.
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